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Item Title
Witt Shields Barn, Cades Cove, Blount County, TN
Location
Cades%25252BCove, TN
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS TN-160
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-35).
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. EAST (FRONT) ELEVATION, FROM NORTHEAST. Date: July 1937 (no negative number)
2. WEST (REAR) ELEVATION, FROM NORTHWEST Date: July 1937 (no negative number)
3. SOUTH ELEVATION Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10614
4. ELL, SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BARN, FROM NORTHEAST Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10619
5. ELL, NORTH ELEVATION, AT SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BARN Date: July 10, 1937: negative #10622
6. SOUTH ELEVATION OF BARN: STUDY OF FIRST LOG PEN FROM SOUTHWEST CORNER Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10642
7. SOUTH ELEVATION OF BARN: STUDY OF SECOND LOG PEN FROM SOUTHWEST CORNER Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10641
8. SOUTH ELEVATION OF BARN: COVERED OPENING, NEAR SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BARN Date: July 9, 1937; negative #10620
9. DETAIL OF ELL: STUDY OF FIRST LOG PEN, FROM NORTH Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10623
10. DETAIL OF ELL: STUDY OF SECOND LOG PEN, FROM NORTH Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10624
11. SHOWS NORTH WALL OF ELL (interior part of ell), CONTINUING THRU SOUTH ENTRY (left-hand side barn entrance). ALSO SHOWS DETAILS OF PENS #2 AND #3, AND PLATE CONSTRUCTION OF MAIN LOFT. VIEW FROM NORTH. Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10625
12. VIEW OF SOUTHERN PART OF BARN (left-hand side of barn), LOOKING WEST. NOTE PENS ON FIRST FLOOR Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10630
13. DETAIL OF WOODEN FEED TROUGH AND HAY RACK Date: July 1941; negative #10654
14. SHOWS KEEPERS WHICH HELD THE SLIDING BOLT TO LOCK DOOR; ALSO SHOWS FEED TROUGH AND HAY RACK (see HABS No. TN-160-13) IN BACKGROUND. SPIKES USED TO NAIL DOOR JAMBS TO WALL LOGS MADE FROM OLD HORSESHOES Date: July 1941; negative #10653
15. CENTER ENTRY (central area of barn), SHOWING NORTH WALL (right) OF SOUTH CENTRAL PEN WITH LADDER AND HARNESS CLOSET. NORTHEAST CORNER OF PEN TO THE LEFT. VIEW FROM NORTHEAST. Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10632
16. DOOR, LOCATED AT CENTER ENTRY, EAST WALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL PEN. NOTE LEFT DOOR JAMB WITH ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF DOOR; LOG ABOVE HAS BEEN CUT OUT TO INCREASE HEIGHT OF OPENING. UPPER PART OF LEFT STILE FORMS A SPINDLE. PIECE OF WOOD CUT TO RECEIVE SPINDLE FASTENED TO BARN WITH OAK PEGS. THIS FORMED UPPER HINGE OF DOOR. NOTE LATCH TO RIGHT OF DOOR Date: July 1942; negative #10656
17. DETAIL OF HARNESS CLOSET, LOCATED ON NORTH WALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL PEN, CENTRAL PART OF THE BARN Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10651
18. VIEW OF EAST (FRONT) WALL OF NORTH CENTER PEN, CENTER ENTRY. VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10634
19. VIEW OF LOFT, FROM TOP OF NORTH PENS, LOOKING SOUTH Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10652
20. DETAIL OF DOOR TO FIRST LOG PEN OF NORTH WALL (north wall of north entry (right side), at the southeast corner of first of four pens which form the north wall of the barn). VIEW LOOKING WEST. Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10636
21. DETAIL OF NORTH WALL OF NORTH ENTRY, SHOWING THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF FIRST OF FOUR PENS WHICH FORM THE NORTH WALL OF THE BARN. VIEW LOOKING WEST. (see also TN-160-20) Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10628
22. DETAIL AT NORTHEAST CORNER OF SOUTH CENTRAL PENS, SHOWING SPIKE AND BRIDLE HOOK MADE FROM HORSESHOES Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10644
23. DETAIL OF LATCH TO DOOR OF BOXED STALL AT REAR OF NORTH CENTRAL PEN. VIEW FROM SOUTH Date: July 10, 1937; negative #10648
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